Improved washing-machine



. f 5eme 'aimt l CARTER, CF SAME PLACE.- Letwrs Patent No. 88,663, dated Awal c, 1869.

DEPROVED *M The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concem Beit known that I, GEORGE N. PALMER, of Green, in

the county of Ghenango, and State of New York, have invented a certain newr and useful Improvement in "Washing-Machines, which I have assigned to HEMAN CARTER, of the same place; and the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents an end View section, showing the Buds-box, a stationary corrugated wash-board,a yielding corrugated pressure-board, and the smooth, hard-wood cylinder, with the mode of securing vulcanized sheet rubber to it, to form the Washing, or scouring-apparatus.

Figure 2 shows a longitudinal viewof the rubbing, or scouringcylinder, as `covered with India rubber, to make. the corrugations very flexible.

The object of myinvention is to make avery simple, cheap, durable, and el'cient apparatus for cleansing clothing, bed and table linen, &c., that will not tear, chat. or remove buttons, and will cleanse the dirtiest parts, as collars and wristbands to mens shirts, as perfeet-ly as washing with the hands.

My invention consists in the mode of covering `a smooth Wood roller with a suitable thickness sheet of vulcanized India rubber, so secured at intervals as to leave open spaces under the corrugations, thereby making them very flexible and yielding, while at the same time they produce the necessary friction for rubbing soiled places Without the chaing or Wearing of the articles, incident to less iieXible corrugated rollers.

To enable others to make and use my improved washing-apparatus, I will describe it more fully, referring to the drawings, .and to the letters marked thereon.

I make the suds-box A in the ordinary manner, supported on legs B B, to make it a suitable height for the convenience of operating.

Inoue of the ends O C, I make a corrugated stationary wash-board, D, which can be used for washing in the common-manner.

In the centre ofthe suds-box A, I place a horizontal corrugated Wash-board, E, supported at the ends onpieces of' wood'F, which are pivoted' at one end to the sides of the suds-box, and held up at the other by springs f, so that the board E can be depressed to admit a largeror smaller quantity between it and the rnbber roller G, which has its bearings d d in boxes on the top of the box A.

The Washing-roller G is constructed by having a hardwood roller, of any suitable diameter, turned smooth, then by takinga sheetof nonelastic India rubber, or cloth b, saturated and covered with gum, and seeming the same to the roller G, with copper nails c c c or small brass screws, at such intervals as to leave loops, o1' open spaces e e e e between it and the surface of the cylinderG, thus forming very dexible but non-elastic corrugations 'on the surface. i

The washing, or operating flexible corrugated cylinder is provided with a crank-handle, H, and is worked by turning back and forth, the same as any roller Washing-machine.

It has been practically demonstrated that with the simple apparatus, constructed as above described, at

least iifty per cent. of the time and labor is saved in4 washing, and the most soiled places are as thoroughly cleansed withas little Wear and damage to the articles as can be done by the most careful hand washing.

VVihat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The smooth surface roller G, covered with vulcanized 'Indiafrubber sheet, or cloth b b, the same being so secured, at intervals to the roller,- as to form corrugations, and leave openings e e e between it and the cylinder, substantially in the manner as described, for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of- LnWIs S. HAYES, HENRY R. Bmnsmn. 

